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XORP 1.2 Extends Open-Source Routing to Windows

March 8, 2006
On March 8th, XORP project leader Atanu Ghosh, research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, announced the release of XORP (eXtensible Open Router Platform) version 1.2. The new release includes several significant new features, including support for Windows 2005, addition of a reconfigurable version of the OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) protocol, and implementation of a policy framework that is fully integrated across all routing protocols.

ICSI Hosted an Open House in Conjunction with BEARS

February 23, 2006
On February 23rd, ICSI hosted an open house in conjunction with BEARS 2006, UC Berkeley's annual EECS research symposium. In addition to posters outlining various research activities at ICSI, there was a demonstration of a speech recognition application that provides market information to Tamil-speaking Indian crop growers, and two featured talks.

Commercial-Grade Router Built on XORP

February 22, 2006
Announcing the beta release of a commercial-grade router built on ICSI's eXtensible Open Router Platform (XORP), Vyatta Inc. emerged from stealth mode on February 22nd. Vyatta will target mid-size enterprises with flexible, open networking software and services delivered on commodity hardware. Vyatta is committed both to building the XORP/open-source networking community and to challenging the closed, high-cost, proprietary networking platforms that dominate today. See Business 2.0 article by Om Malik for more information.

Congratulations to Litonya Walker

February 9, 2006
Congratulations to Litonya Walker in the accounting department on the birth of her daughter Zoe on February 9th. Zoe was born at 10:30 in the morning, and weighed 5 pounds 4 ounces at birth.

Color Perception Research in PNAS

January 14, 2006
According to a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January by Aubrey Gilbert, Terry Regier, ICSI's Paul Kay, and Richard Ivry, language affects visual perception -- but for the most part, only in the right half of the visual field. This makes sense hypothetically because the left hemisphere of the brain processes language, and receives visual information from the right side of the visual field. Regier, a frequent visitor to ICSI, suggested a study to test this hypothesis. Gilbert and Ivry of UC Berkeley led the experiments, which confirmed Regier's hypothesis. The study built on previous studies by Paul Kay and his colleagues regarding the influence of language on the perception of color.

 

Dr. Eran Halperin Returns to ICSI

January 2, 2006
Dr. Eran Halperin, a former post-doc with Dr. Richard M. Karp of the Algorithms Group, returned to ICSI in January to be a full time research scientist. Dr. Halperin will be focusing on bioinformatics, a field that utilizes computational algorithms in biological research. He is particularly interested in genetics, haplotypes and disease association

ICSI Signs MOU with China Scholarship Council

December 15, 2005
ICSI has signed a memo-of-understanding (MOU) with the China Scholarship Council to create a new international visitors' program--"Chinese Scholars at ICSI" (CSI). The CSI program will bring up to ten young and upcoming Chinese scientists to ICSI each year, and will emphasize collaborative research initiatives with sponsoring commercial partners.

Spanish Visitor Program Call for Applicants

December 5, 2005
The 2007 Spanish call for proposals has now been issued (see below), with an application deadline of February 24, 2008. The English language version can be seen here.

ICSI's HAP Software Used to Analyze Genetic Data

October 18, 2005
ICSI's Eran Halperin and UCSD's Eleazar Eskin have analysed the genetic data in the National Institute of Health's dbSNP database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), using HAP, the haplotype analysis software they developed. The total size of the dataset analyzed is more than double that of previous datasets.

ICSI Delegation Visited Finland

October 10, 2005
Nelson Morgan, Eran Halperin, and Vern Paxson formed an ICSI delegation to Finland the week of October 10, visiting a number of key institutions including HIIT, HUT, VTT, TUT, the Turku Science Park, Tekes, Nokia, SSH, and F-Secure. The overall goal was to initiate potential collaborations, particularly for the Berkeley-Finland visitor program, and to participate in technical exchanges with Finnish scientists in the areas of speech processing, bioinformatics, and internet research. The talks were quite productive, and we expect to be seeing a number of new Finnish researchers visiting ICSI in the coming year as a direct result of these events.

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